Minnesota
How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage Jobs
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Though the Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban noncompete agreements, other kinds of restrictive covenants perform a very similar function.
Minnesota
UMN Grad Workers Express Hope and Urgency as They Gear Up for Union Election
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Over 65% of University of Minnesota Graduate Workers have signed their union cards, an optimistic start after many attempts over the past several decades.
Book Review
Telling a Complete Story of the Pandemic Must Start with Workers
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What a new book can teach us about listening.
Amazon
High Injury Rates Push Minnesota’s Amazon Workers to Organize for Safety
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Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.
Minnesota
Starbucks Is Trying to Wear Workers Down Through Its Relentless “Soft” Union Busting
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Amid a historic unionizing campaign across the country, workers are continuing to organize despite Starbucks ‘soft’ union-busting tactics.
Minnesota
What Nurses and Teachers Won By Withholding Their “Feminized Labor”
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It is no surprise that out of the hundreds of strikes that began last year, two historic ones occurred in Minnesota, where feminized workers withheld their labor to demand better working conditions, hold their employers accountable, and stand up against greed for collective good and care.
Disabled Minnesotans Are Facing a Home Care Crisis. Workers Are Calling on Democrats to Change That.
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Home care workers are negotiating their contract in hopes that the state will allocate some of the $17.6 billion surplus to improve pay and benefits—a test of the state’s Democratic trifecta’s political will to solve a worsening crisis for disabled people and their caregivers.
Art
“Their Wealth, Your Misery”: Art and Propaganda in Pandemic Times
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Propaganda posters, pamphleteering, protest as performance, and more at the multidisciplinary artist’s first career spanning exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum
Organizing
Why Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Workers in the Midwest Unionized
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Recently unionized healthcare and nonprofit workers in the Midwest are weathering the changes to reproductive rights and access.
Unions
They Waged the Largest Private-Sector Nurses’ Strike in U.S. History. They’re Still Waiting for Justice.
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Minnesota nurses made national headlines by going on strike this fall, but as contract negotiations stall, they’re fighting for a voice on the job.